Captives
Synopsis
A stunning novel set in postwar Romania about language, identity, and loss.
Captives, the acclaimed writer Norman Manea's first novel, is a fascinating, kaleidoscopic, and imaginative look into postwar Romania. Divided into three sections-narrated in first-, second-, and third-person voices-Captives explores the lives of several defeated characters as they become almost too much to bear under the weight of endless humiliations: loss of identity, trauma of having survived the Second World War, and submission to the totalitarian state.
This is a moving account of a country shaken by communism and anti-Semitism and haunted by recent atrocities, from "a distinguished writer whose vision of totalitarianism is close to Kafka's cloudy menace, universal yet internalized" (Richard Eder, The New York Times).
- प्रतिलिपि अधिकार:
- 2011 Norman Manea
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- ISBN-13:
- 9780811224697
- Publisher:
- New Directions
- Date of Addition:
- 2017-04-15T08:01:20Z
- भाषा:
- English
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- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.